Just perusing the latest 'Soldier' magazine, and not for the first time recently, i see a picture of a bod with some strange box bolted onto the side of hi SUSAT, it doesn't appear to be anyhting optical, unles he's got a cover on it, so WTF is it?!?!?

on further inspection of aforementioned picture, it appears that there is no grenade launcher attachment under the rifle, so WTF is going on here? or is the Rifle Grenade General Service yet another method of getting a bomb at the enemy that i dont know about?

on further inspection of aforementioned picture, it appears that there is no grenade launcher attachment under the rifle, so WTF is going on here? or is the Rifle Grenade General Service yet another method of getting a bomb at the enemy that i dont know about?

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Yup. You take the RGGS, slip it over the muzzle, you fire a live round, the RGGS traps the bullet, and uses the bullet's energy to launch it / trigger its own mechanism. No need for an underbarrel grenade launcher.

It's known as a bullet-trap grenade. Other in-service rifle grenades have occasionally required special blank cartridges to fire them (CLAW and ENERGA) and special muzzle attachments (ENERGA, hence that little fastening pocket on the side of the 58-pattern ammo pouch)

If you want pictures, look at an up-to-date version of Pam13 (Grenades, Pyrotechnics, et al) held in your training store - it includes cutaways.

Before anyone says "spotter", I only know it's Pam13 because I spent an hour last week trying to sort out correctly amended pamphlets for our range box........